Re: [trinity-users] screen blanker ???

Maybe Bill, but you've obviously never smelt a 40 acre feedlot with 200 head of beef on it on a -20F morning in February '44. You can't even see thru it. With 2 perches that totalled 4300 lbs in the other side of the barn, there was no comparison, the equines were tolerable. Raised in Iowa farming country, I'm quite familiar with both. And I've forked plenty of the output of both from the barn to the spreader. Those 2 perches could do more in a days time in terms of tons moved than the best of the case tractors we also had. I was plowing the west 80, with a case LA w/4 16" bottoms on the plow, a field which had a windmill fed watering tank in the middle of it and got too close to the tank and buried it all in the mud. Daddy swore, whistled up that pair of perches, made a new 2x12 oak double-tree, and hooked them to that tractor with about 80 ft of 1/2" log chain so they'd be on solid ground. Daddy knew horses,and never abused them so they'd do whatever he asked. I pulled the hitch pin to leave the plow, Daddy went tsk tsk, the middle of that chain came up in the air, and that 8,000 lb tractor was back on dryer land shortly, gave then some sugar cubes, time to blow, and went back after the plow. Those perches dug two ditches deep enough to drag their bellies, but they got the job done. Yet they were gentle enough a 10 yo boy could ride either bare backed. We had saddles and a riding horse too, but no saddles that could be thrown onto those 2. Gentle Giants. I remember them well 75 years later. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett